Contextualizebeta

overtranslation

noun

Etymology

From over- + translation.

  1. derived from trānslātiō
  2. derived from translacioun
  3. inherited from translacioun — “transfer, translation”
  4. prefixed as overtranslation — “over + translation”

Definitions

  1. The act of overtranslating.

    • Mistaking a servitude for an option can lead to overtranslation.
    • One result of overtranslation is to render this development incoherent, trivial, or even imperceptible, since the development is already tacitly built into the translation from the beginning.
    • The aim of this article is to illustrate the commonest forms of overtranslation through representative examples drawn from a variety of sources and source languages.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overtranslation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA